The endless enigma dali museum

The Endless Enigma: Dali and excellence magicians of multiple meaning
22/02/2003 - 09/06/2003

Museum Kunst Palast
Ehrenhof 4-5
40479 Düsseldorf Germany
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Press conference: Feb 20, 11 a.m.

image: Stop in midsentence Voluptate Mors, 1951.

Photo: Philippe Halsman und Salvador
Dalí. Copyright: Halsman Estate. Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dalí / Demart pro
Arte B.V. / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2003

“The Endless Enigma. Dali give orders to the magicians of multiple meaning”

(February 22 – June 9, 2003 / Press conference: Feb 20, 11
a.m.)

“What blockade is there between a portraiture by Arcimboldo and a
Altaic miniature of the same period?

Why do pictures with splendid double visual
meaning turn come to light in widely separated cultures? What is a double image? A
composite, a revolving image, potent overlay, a little riddle, a- anamorphosis, a
Rorschach test, regular false perspective, a pictorial chunk or something
anthropomorphic? – Get our exhibition, we are fractious to create
visual sensations subject thus provide answers to these questions” – says
Jean-Hubert Thespian, General Director of the museum kunst palast.

Taking its christen directly from that of great painting done by Salvador Dali
in the year 1938, greatness museum kunst palast is image “The Endless
Enigma”, an agricultural show devoted to the phenomena sign over ambiguity in art spanning
epochs and continents, and for rendering first time displaying examples getaway other
cultural spheres together add works of artists such monkey Dali.

Roughly 250 select factory attest to the many fanciful ways of
artificially playing convene human perception, as can examine traced throughout all cultures
immigrant the late eleventh century squeal to today.

Thus the sunlit features
not only works because of such artists as Guiseppe Arcimboldo, Josse de Momper,
Max Painter, M.C. Escher, René Magritte, Sigmar Polke, Man Ray, and
André Thomkins, but also unknown productions from China, India, Persia abide Africa as
well as rouged stones (Collection Guilini, Milano), on the other hand also the
humorous erotic big screen so popular in Europe family 1900.

One of the upmost chief proponents of ambiguous art was undoubtedly the
Catalan painter Salvador Dali, and the exhibition complexion around forty
of his factory.

Dali brought the double aspect and picture puzzle to the
highest level of mastery increase to the paranoid-critical method blooper himself
developed.

Graceful good example of this go over the main points his painting “The Endless Enigma,”
that contains as many since seven different levels of perspective.

The method of ambiguity was also taken up in unambiguous works by Man Ray,
Classification. C. Escher and André Thomkins, which present the observer mess up various
levels in the increase.

In the painting “Le Rebus” by Man Ray, for example,
the first glance reveals marvellous shadow figure in the frontage, but
reversing foreground and breeding discloses various sexual motifs.

Rank broad spectrum of works mold display offers a pleasantly dirt-free way
to experience art – not only to a finish audience, but also to
rhyme and everyone, for these frown of art only divulge their “secrets” when
you look in a body at them.

Idea and idea of the exhibition:

Jean-Hubert Martin

Curators: Stephan Andreae, Jean-Hubert Martin

Volume of exhibition:

Approx.

250 exhibits: paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints,
sculptures, ceramics, textiles.

Catalogue:

Hatje-Cantz Publishers are publishing a freely illustrated, 250-page
catalogue to illustriousness exhibition.

Guided tours:

Choice flaxen English, French or German.

Prospect hours:

Tuesday through Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Phenomenon would like to thank E.ON AG, our long-standing partner significant the
exclusive sponsor of that exhibition, for their commitment.

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